"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."  -  Robert Bresson

This is the mission of the photographer, to call our attention to aspects of the world that might otherwise go unnoticed or underappreciated.  But it's not just about seeing with our eyes, it's about seeing with our mind.

What the camera captures on its sensor or film is only a slice of space and time, and thus, in a sense, a fleeting representation of reality.  Certainly, in this process, we strive to capture an image that tickles our fancy, that stimulates our brain.

But to make an image last beyond the present, even beyond our lifetimes, is to capture not a passing state of the world, but an idea, a figment of our own sense of meaning and understanding of reality.  An image need not faithfully represent the material world, but rather what we as photographers feel and think.  In this way, photography becomes an art.  Photography must push images to the edges of the abstract, un-linking our everyday visions of the physical with our deepest thoughts and feelings about the world.

Jim's work has been accepted accepted in many juried competitions, including the prestiguous Coastal Arts League 2010 Michael H. Kellicutt International Photo Show, the last five years in the KVIE Art Auction, the State Fair Fine Art show for the last two years, and the Sacramento Fine Art's Magnum Opus show for several years, among others.